Anyone With Autoimmune Disease?

Hi Bunkie and welcome to Breastcancer.org,

There's a forum here that could be helpful to you in finding others with a similar diagnosis. The Mixed Type Breast Cancer or Breast Cancer with Another Diagnosis forum is a place where others with breast cancer and another condition (many with autoimmune diseases) meet to exchange experiences.

Hope this helps!

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Bunkie, there have also been other threads here on this topic, although maybe more of a roll call of who had been dealing with an autoimmune disease when dx'd with bc, rather than a commentary on the affect of bc tx on their pre-existing condition.  I've responded to a couple of those threads because I'd had an autoimmune condition in the past that had gone away prior to my bc dx, but now that my tx is over, has started to come back a little bit.  My PCP says it just means my immune system is functioning overly well, but others here in the past have suggested that an overactive immune system is a distracted immune system, focused on the wrong thing, so missed the bc.  But I'm sure there's some sort of connection, which I think was the point of the other threads.

Anyway, try using the SEARCH feature to the left and you might find those threads and others with your specific condition, or thoughts on dealing with tx.  No matter what you find here, I would be very sure that you have a rad onc and medical team that is familiar with your condition and has experience with other bc patients with similar issues.  It sounds like a relatively uncommon scenario, and having some experience with patients in your situation would be invaluable in guiding you now.      Deanna   

  I have sarcoidosis and am a bc survivor.  I was diagnosed with stage 4 mets, but my lung biopsy showed I had sarcoid instead!  I just was diagnosed with neuropathy.  The doctor believes it is from chemo and/or sarcoid.

My skin never opened up.  I aired it out each day.  I used Dove soap,  I used Aquafor liberally each day--including in the dressing room right after rads.  I wore a soft cotton cami over it, and when I had to, wore a loose cotton bra over the cami.

i have had sarcoidosis since 2007.  i had an excisional biopsy in 2006 which should a papiloma on the left.   just got done with a whirlwind 4 weeks of mammograms, mammotone biopsy (atypical ductal ephithelia hyperplasia) and excisional biopsy (1/11/2013) (DCIS stage 3, ER93%, PR 0%)(pT1s pNX).

i already made the appt with the oncologist for next Thursday.  Surgeon said 6 weeks of radiation followed by Tamoxifen...will wait for oncologist's suggestion, but ready for anything BUT a mastectomy!  don't want to lose the tatas!